Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, and Three Brief Essays

With great energy and clarity, Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894), author of *History of the Criminal Law of England*, and judge of the High Court from 1879-91, challenges John Stuart Mill's *On Liberty* and *On Utilitarianism*, arguing that Mill's view of humanity is sentimental and utopian. "His writing is strong meat-full of the threat of hellfrire, the virtue of government by the lash and a fervent belief that the state cannot remain neutral but has a duty to espouse a moral code."-Roderick Munday, *Cambridge Law Journal*